About Penelope A.
Penelope A. Boyd earned her law degree from Villanova University School of Law in 1976 after completing a pre-law curriculum at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1972. She entered the profession at a time when few women pursued long-term careers in law. The early academic years set a steady course for public service and dispute resolution work.
Her first recorded public-sector post came in the early 1980s at the Department of the Public Advocate, where she served as a lawyer beginning in 1982. That role placed her in the trenches of administrative and public-interest practice. She later joined the Disabilities Law Project in 1988, handling matters that intersected with disability rights and access to services. Those positions shaped her practical approach and provided courtroom and advocacy experience across state and federal venues.
In 1990 she opened her own practice, listed under the name Penelope A. Boyd, attorney. Running a solo office required shifting from staff roles to the responsibilities of ownership. She has combined litigation and counseling on individual cases with mediation work. In 2004 she accepted a lawyer position at the Domestic Violence Center of Chester County, adding direct experience in family safety and protective-order matters to her portfolio.
Boyd holds mediator certifications from Montgomery County: she is a Certified Family Law Mediator and a Certified Elder Law Mediator. Those credentials inform much of her current work. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her federal admissions include the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the District of New Jersey, and she is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This broad admission profile has enabled her to move between state and federal forums when clients’ needs require it.
She remains active in local professional circles and is a current member of the Chester County Bar Association. Her office is listed at 535 N. Church Street. Over the years she has handled disability-related advocacy, domestic-violence matters, family-law disputes and mediated cases involving older adults.
Today she maintains a private practice in Chester County. Her work centers on mediating family-law and elder-law disputes and advising clients in cases that involve disability and domestic-law concerns.
